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Administrators said cleaning crews arrived Monday morning and discovered the lobby and activity room had been emptied from the floors to the walls.

They cleaned us out, they took everything,” resident Burkes Menefield said. “I'm angry, I'm very angry."

"I don't have that security I had before. We're right here on the first floor and I keep thinking about how they could come to our apartment too and it's scary, it's really scary,” said Barbara Menefield.

Chairs, tables, rugs, paintings, even the refrigerator are all gone.

“It meant a whole lot,” said Burkes Menefield. “It’s still a beautiful room we just don’t have anything in it but a bunch of mailboxes.”

Officials said no one heard or saw anything. Police said the thieves forced their way in in the middle of the night then escaped through the front door. The building has no security cameras, but administrators said that will change after the heist.

“Just when it seems that everything is on the upswing and part of this neighborhood is coming back to life just to see this kind of thing happen where everything is going in the right direction,” said Andy Hutzel, with OTR Community Housing. “Then all of a sudden your feet get taken from underneath you.”

The organization spent years restoring the vacant building which used to be the old Christian Moerlein building. The building was vacant for more than 20 years, said Hutzel.

It opened last May and many neighbors were looking forward to the new piece of mind.

“Whatever their reason was for taking our stuff it was no sense to it,” said Barbara Menefield.

“So bring our furniture back and stay out of here, you know leave us alone,” said Burkes Menefield.